Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters Workhorse bullets - in each line, which ones shine?

I have never seen an A-Frame, TBBC, or Northfok of at least .300 sectional density fail to expand, and only a handful fail to exit in the largest of game. Those would be my absolute top choice. I've seen similar performance with Weldcores, but you do have to respect their max velocity or they shed too much weight whereas you can drive the other three essentially as fast as you want.

Partitions and accubonds are in a middle tier - they shed too much weight but are otherwise OK. Swift Scirocco's don't shed excessive weight but are only available in lower SDs than I would like.

The very worst I have seen are Bergers (which are frangible target bullets despite being sold for hunting) and Barnes mono-metal which frequently fail to open and produce very inadequate wounds when they do.